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Our bodies are as much as 60% water. All living things contain it and, like us, depend upon it for survival. Although 70% of the Earth is covered with water, a staggering number of the world’s poor lack even the most basic sanitation and access to clean water. 97% of the water on Earth is salt water. 2% is frozen in glaciers and ice caps. Only 1% is fresh water. That needs to be enough for everyone. All seven billion of us. One out of every eight people on Earth searches every day for clean water. One in six has no access to a toilet. None. Think about that. What would your life be like if that were you?

'Hmm, well, no bottled water, I guess. And no water running from the tap at home, so no shower. But seriously, no toilet? Not even this?'

Every day, women around the world walk mile after mile to collect water for bathing, cooking, cleaning and for their families to drink. They can only take back home as much as they can carry. Often that water is teeming with bacteria that will make them sick. But they have little choice. To go without even this polluted water would mean dehydration and possible death.

'You can only go three days without water.'

Countless hours spent searching or waiting in line. Lives and days wasted by illness. Time lost that could have been spent in school and work, planting, building, providing for their loved ones.

Every twenty seconds a child dies from a water-related illness like diarrhoea.

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As people know: " Water is very important ". It help us too much but INSTEAD OF protecing water, we are destroying.
Stop!!!!!!!!!!!!
We should use water as much as we want. We save water and save our life. LET'S GO. (^_^)
(^^) The video is very interesting and helpful. It help me to know more about "water" .
" Thank learn English Teens Team very much " :D

Yeah, I really like this video very much! besides it's related to my study now. I'm Chemical Engineering student and water is one aspect that very crucial to survive in this world. In my opinion, water is becoming crisis because of the chemical waste that comes from the factory and house. yeah,, how many rubbish that we produce in one day? but the rubbish can not be processed to be another product? Those are only contaminate the water and clean water becomes crisis. It's a big role of chemical engineer to solve this problem but in this situation that we can do now is plan many trees and save the energy

Yes! I like this video, I've learned that you should not spend bad the water, because in other places for example in Africa must not drink, but drink water when they drink contaminated water, a staggering number of the world’s poor lack even the most basic sanitation and access to clean water.and they die!!

This video was fantastic because I learned about the porcentage of water we have in the world. I do not realize how people waste the water, but we can change it .So we can have a short shower and close running taps too.

The video is pretty impressive and informative!! People could do simple things like close running taps after use or use the shower instead of a bathtub and take a quick shower a few minutes to save water.

Fantastic! This video is pretty cool. In most villages there is no water, people die for water and in towns and cities people waste so much water. I think if we all use as much water as we want, the rest of the water can be given to the other villages. At least it would be clean and bacteria-free. Thank you Learn English Teens Team for putting up such a nice video.
Keep it up! :D